Don’t even need PE money for 25k
I would think a scrimmage in DC could net the players a fair bit of cash each. Get all of the alums to come and pay $100 for an autograph
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Agree. If the NBA or NFL didn’t have salary caps, pay scales, contracts, etc. we’d end up with 4-5 super teams and the other franchises would suffer pretty serious consequences.
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I have been saying this for a year: one way to adjust strategically is to shift recruiting focus, at the margin I’m talking about, away from high school players and towards guys that played one year of college and maybe there was a coaching change or it didn’t work out for whatever reason. Those guys can move once without sitting, and then there’s friction if they want to leave again. With those guys you retain some potential for development over time.
Then you need to focus on grad transfers who are looking to level up for their last year and have the raw athleticism to overcome lack of familiarity with the system.
We are basically going to be forced into this approach this year I think. We need bodies.
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Guys that don’t play make that?!
I guess I’m naive but I thought the more visible players (those who get minutes) make that level.
Then again Chase and Grant Kersey were very visible.
We used to get 12 dollars post game (I saw Papi receive 3 crisp 5s for his postgame this year). Would immediately go to the 7-11 on the way home by the wingz spot and buy 12 Coors Banquets. Head back to Lambeth or wherever depending on year and get the party started
Heading to that PE dudes house for my NIL is real work at age 20 after a game ha
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The most concerning part of that is the stipend only increased 3 bucks in nearly 30 yrs. And people wonder why the system is broken.
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If UVa really wanted to take the guardrails off NIL … do we even have that kind of alum who is willing to pony up well above market value for some product placement or some other corporate benefit? Those alums exist in droves in the SEC and elsewhere but I wonder about it at UVa.
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They are there, look no further than the facilities being built around grounds. If the door is open I am sure there are plenty who are willing to walk through it.
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New NIL play is getting the players carried interest
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Definitely - we have a ton of rich alumni, may of whom would do this sort of thing:
And that’s the point – isn’t this already clearly okay? If Clark and Gardner were paid to show up at a charity event, how is this any different? This seems like the sort of thing we’re too gun-shy to do, which is insane to me.
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Love this post; wish I could like it twice. 6’8” athletic bigs with minimal offensive talent and huge motors are out there. Build the Akil Mitchell/Darion Atkins/Isaiah Wilkins pipeline again. Lets get back to the way this program used to play.
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FWIW I’ve heard from someone close to Shedrick that the decision was “100% basketball related.” So, while I agree that the NIL discussion is a real one the university needs to figure out, I don’t think that was the driving factor here.
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Shedrick’s going to go pro after averaging 3.5 blocks per game and spamming pick and roll/fast break offense for a season and It will be a bummer
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Night before then. You’re not there to party. Strictly business.
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Not that I doubt you, but what else are they gonna say. “It was all about the money’. Pretty sure everyone wants to take the high road.
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But are the two independent of each other?
It may have been completely basketball related, but was it in the sense that lack of PT (or at least inconsistent PT) was negatively impacting marketability with regards to NIL?
Can’t maximize potential earnings if you’re not playing/showcasing.
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Oh for 25k I think everyone would suck it up
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Tbh sounds like Kadin is a case of addition by subtraction no matter how talented he is. Even if he has a breakout elsewhere next year that wasn’t going to happen here
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Are we sure that there’s not already NIL $$ going to the basketball team? I can’t find it now, but a poster on the Sabre stated pretty authoritatively that our basketball NIL fund is plenty healthy. IIRC they also said that no one is going to come here just for the salary, but that it’s enough to be competitive for the caliber of players that we’re recruiting.
I dunno, maybe the Sabre is full of blowhards though, I haven’t been around these boards long enough to know.
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I think it would help if UVA or Cav Futures or whoever would be more transparent with the amounts that players are receiving. For example, I’ve seen press releases from other collectives stating that thanks to their fundraising efforts every men’s basketball player will receive $20K this year. Players typically have to do a little charity work in exchange to make it on the up and up.
From what I get, it’s two-pronged. There’s that almost base salary from the collective. You see our players in photo opps out making the required appearances to collect that money. But then there’s also the hustling up of endorsement deals, which are the real difference for recognizable players.
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